So this has been.my favorite song of OTEP's since it came out in 2004, and I always thought it was a song about a child's narrative of suffering in an abusive Christian home. But now that I am revisiting the lyrics, I am seeing something totally new.
This song could be gospel of John but from the perspective of Jesus.
Jesus was NOT having a good time up to and during the crucifixion. Everyone in the known world at the time looked to him with fear, admiration or disgust and he was constantly being asked questions. He spoke in "verses, prophesies and curses". He had made an enemy of the state, and believed the world was increasingly wicked and fallen from grace, or that he was in the "mouth of madness".
The spine of atlas is the structure that allows the titan to hold the world up. Jesus challenged the state and in doing so became a celebrated resistance figure. It also made him public enemy #1.
All of this happened simply because he was doing his thing, not because of any agenda he had or strategy.
And then he gets scourged (storm of thorns)
There are some plot holes here but I think it's an interesting interpretation.
Fuck you all
Running out of ways to run
I can't see, I can't be
Over and over and under my skin
All this attention is doing me in
Fuck it all fuck this world
Fuck everything that you stand for
Don't belong don't exist
Don't give a shit
Don't ever judge me
Picking through the parts exposed
Taking shape, taking shag
Over and over and under my skin
All this momentum is doing me in
Fuck it all fuck this world
Fuck everything that you stand for
Don't belong don't exist
Don't give a shit
Don't ever judge me
And don't you fuckin judge me
Pain
You got all my love, livin' in your own hate
Drippin' hole man, hard step, no fate
Show you nothin', but I ain't holdin' back
Every damn word I say is a sneak attack
When I get my hands on you
Ain't a fucking thing you can do
Get this 'cause you're never gonna get me
I am the very disease you pretend to be
I am the push that makes you move
I am the push that makes you move
I am the push that makes you move
I am the push that makes you move
Fuck it all fuck this world
Fuck everything that you stand for
Don't belong don't exist
Don't give a shit
Don't ever judge me
Fuck it all fuck this world
Fuck everything that you stand for
Don't belong don't exist
Don't give a shit
Don't ever judge me
Running out of ways to run
I can't see, I can't be
Over and over and under my skin
All this attention is doing me in
Fuck it all fuck this world
Fuck everything that you stand for
Don't belong don't exist
Don't give a shit
Don't ever judge me
Picking through the parts exposed
Taking shape, taking shag
Over and over and under my skin
All this momentum is doing me in
Fuck it all fuck this world
Fuck everything that you stand for
Don't belong don't exist
Don't give a shit
Don't ever judge me
And don't you fuckin judge me
Pain
You got all my love, livin' in your own hate
Drippin' hole man, hard step, no fate
Show you nothin', but I ain't holdin' back
Every damn word I say is a sneak attack
When I get my hands on you
Ain't a fucking thing you can do
Get this 'cause you're never gonna get me
I am the very disease you pretend to be
I am the push that makes you move
I am the push that makes you move
I am the push that makes you move
I am the push that makes you move
Fuck it all fuck this world
Fuck everything that you stand for
Don't belong don't exist
Don't give a shit
Don't ever judge me
Fuck it all fuck this world
Fuck everything that you stand for
Don't belong don't exist
Don't give a shit
Don't ever judge me
Lyrics submitted by thewhitepony33
Surfacing Lyrics as written by Christopher Fehn Michael Crahan
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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song reminds me of how people can be so judgemental..when they dont know shit about you.